For Jamie MacNab

You made a comment yesterday here to which I expressed astonishment. Perhaps my response had an air of censure. You very calmly explained what had formed your opinions etc. and I left it at that. I had made the comment to you because I was extremely troubled to read what you had said. What I did not do was explain what had formed my opinion which spurred me to respond to you as I had done. You know I have much regard for you and I think you are a great ambassador of your faith. Throughout the day I was conscious of how I had addressed you. For me causing any undue hurt is a grievous matter. So, first of all I apologise if I came across censorious and unkind. Secondly, my disinclination to how your remark appeared, apart from the very obvious reasons, also had its basis in how life has formed me. For me the mention of death and destruction that abortion can be and mostly is, is somewhat a delicate subject when cited in proximity of mention of babies, especially babies in loving arms.

However, the way the day progressed on My T and whatever else appeared here made me think, Jamie, that some people will stop at nothing whatsoever, that for some people there appear to be are no parameters within which they care to ‘make their point’. Most vociferously they raise the banner for transparency and awareness about the ills of the world while many skeletons fester in the ‘proverbial’ cupboard.

You have always made the point of restoring what once was to address the predicaments of today and tomorrow, but it seems no one is interested in that. In the end it all appears a little hollow to me. Clichéd yes, but people want to have their cake and eat it too and they do not see the incompatibility in it.

One must try and be true to oneself. I was true to myself when I made the comment to you yesterday and I am also being true to myself in writing this blog.